Improved skating-boot



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

IMPROVED SKATING-BOOT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,938, clated,.lnne 23, 1863.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GARDNER T. BARKER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and aresident of Pittsfield, inthe county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Skating Boot 5 and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view, Fig. 2 a bottom View, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section7 ofthe same. Fig. 5 is a side view of the runner as detached from the boot.

ln carrying out my invention the metallic runner of askate, instead of being affixed to an ordinary foot-piece, to be held to the foot of a person by straps, is to be secu-ed directly to the sole and heel of a boot or a shoe, and it is not only to be provided with anges by which it may be so affixed to the sole and heel, but is to have tenons to enter the sole and heel, these tenons being for the purpose of protecting the screws from the strains to which they are liable both laterally and longitudinally. Were it not for these anges the holdingscrews, in consequence of the yielding character of the leather sole, especially when it may be wet or saturated with water, as it isliable to be when in use, would be likely to work loose or have their holes in the leather enlarged. For the further protection of the screws each tenen has one end made angular, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A denotes an ordinary boot, while B is the skate-runner peiman ently affixed to the sole and the heel thereof. The runner has two standards, a b, they being-provided Iwith bearing-flanges c f to rest against the flat under surface of the sole g and heel h, and to be affixed thereto by screws i c', screwed through them and into the same. Each standard projects above their flanges or seats so as to form a tenon, k. These tenons extend into corresponding grooves or sockets l l, made within the sole and heel. Furthermore, the front end ofthe front tenon, as well as the rear end of the rear tenon, is beveled, as shown in Fig. 3, the two bevels constituting a dovetail, which aids in keeping the runner in place and removing the strain of the boot from the holding-screws.

I claim- The improved construction of the runner and its application to a boot or shoe7 substantially as described.

GARDNER T. BARKER.

Witnesses:

S. W. BOWERMAN, L. H. GAMWELL. 

